The Actual Evidence About The Minimum Wage – Yes, It Kills Jobs
Much is made among progressives about how new research shows that the minimum wage doesn't in fact kill jobs. This is, at very bestest,...
The Truth About Life – And Poverty – In Britain
As someone who has pottered around several different parts of the world - not just as a tourist, but to live and work -...
The Spirit Level – Now Proven To Be Deluded
The scientific method is the idea that we've got to check out theories against that reality outside the window. Facts which break our theory...
Amazon’s Echo Joins The Consumer Inflation Basket
The Office For National Statistics has said that Amazon's Echo - or at least products like it, the Google Home and so on -...
IMF’s Lagarde Entirely Wrong About Corporate Profits Taxation
That we might want to alter the system of corporate profits taxation is fair enough. But if we're going to do that then we...
Great Depression – Perhaps Not Banking Networks But Banking Pyramids That Cause Collapse Problems
As is well known - or should be - the United States had appalling problems with bank failures during the Great Depression. It also...
Why Bitcoin Will Fail – The Doomsday Loop Of Proof Of Work Explained
That Bitcoin doesn't seem to have a use - other than educating us in the scams possible in a money system - is one...
Bolivias’s Evo Morales Has Reduced Extreme Poverty Less Than The Global Average
The Guardian wants to tell us all that those Latin American populist leaders, largely of the left, have done oh so well in reducing...
The Minimum Wage Costs Jobs – Amazon’s Whole Foods Cuts Hours For Higher Wage
A major contention abut the minimum wage is that it doesn't particularly do anyone any good. Sure, people gain more pay per hour worked....
Why Central Banks Won’t Be Issuing Bitcoin Style Cryptocurrencies Anytime Soon
It's entirely true that the blockchain part of cryptocurrencies looks interesting. Might even have some useful real world applications other than reprising every monetary...